Skater Boy
Aug 28, 2007, 9:35 PM
Well, for those that don't know, one of the symbols that represents Bisexuality is the double triangle:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97/JBASHORUN/Bi_triangles.jpg
I know that "flags", etc are not so important to some. But many use them as an outward symbol of their sexuality, just as the 100% gay community has their flags and symbols that they like to use.
Anyway, I recently discovered what this particular symbol meant, and how it originated:
In Hitler's Germany, Gay people were considered as much a threat as the Jews. I hadn't fully realized this until now. but apparently up to 15,000 Gay people were murdered in Nazi concentration camps. Before they died, they are said to have undergone inhuman torture and suffering, including being experimented on by German hormone scientists and used as target practise by SS soldiers.
The "mark" that the Nazis used to clearly identify homosexuals was: the pink triangle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_triangle
It is this pink triangle... coupled with a blue one to denote that we are not entirely homosexual, that features in the Bisexual double-triangle symbol.
Having become aware of its origins, I'm not entirely sure that I want to incorporate it into anything I make or do. Unless I can somehow change its significance and reassign a new meaning to the symbol. But I just thought I'd share its origins in case any of you who have items featuring it weren't aware of it. Personally, I think I'd opt for the :flag2: instead.
Oh, and also... next time everyone in the older generation says "never again!" and talks of the horrors of the Holocaust, remember that it was not just Jews... that we too were/would also have been persecuted and put to death.
Anyway, enough... sorry to rant about such an unpleasant subject! :soapbox:
[edit: ps: just found out that one of the symbols of lesbian pride is a black triangle, and this is also thought to have originated in the same way as the pink triangle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_triangle_%28badge%29 is this a positive thing or a negative one?]
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97/JBASHORUN/Bi_triangles.jpg
I know that "flags", etc are not so important to some. But many use them as an outward symbol of their sexuality, just as the 100% gay community has their flags and symbols that they like to use.
Anyway, I recently discovered what this particular symbol meant, and how it originated:
In Hitler's Germany, Gay people were considered as much a threat as the Jews. I hadn't fully realized this until now. but apparently up to 15,000 Gay people were murdered in Nazi concentration camps. Before they died, they are said to have undergone inhuman torture and suffering, including being experimented on by German hormone scientists and used as target practise by SS soldiers.
The "mark" that the Nazis used to clearly identify homosexuals was: the pink triangle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_triangle
It is this pink triangle... coupled with a blue one to denote that we are not entirely homosexual, that features in the Bisexual double-triangle symbol.
Having become aware of its origins, I'm not entirely sure that I want to incorporate it into anything I make or do. Unless I can somehow change its significance and reassign a new meaning to the symbol. But I just thought I'd share its origins in case any of you who have items featuring it weren't aware of it. Personally, I think I'd opt for the :flag2: instead.
Oh, and also... next time everyone in the older generation says "never again!" and talks of the horrors of the Holocaust, remember that it was not just Jews... that we too were/would also have been persecuted and put to death.
Anyway, enough... sorry to rant about such an unpleasant subject! :soapbox:
[edit: ps: just found out that one of the symbols of lesbian pride is a black triangle, and this is also thought to have originated in the same way as the pink triangle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_triangle_%28badge%29 is this a positive thing or a negative one?]